Classic Zen quotes

The intention should be broad from the beginning, and the actions should be thorough in the end. Below are 65 Zen quotes that I have compiled for you. You are welcome to share them.

1. You can only listen carefully to the ups and downs of the Zen sounds, and look for the dark and cool overturning and mortal world sunk in this moment, and the bells and chimes that set off the warmth of the smoke and dust. , and the affection of being addicted to the past, and the flowers reflecting in the running water.

2. Stay away from what you feel, whether there is something or nothing.

3. Having fewer desires is the greatest happiness in life; contentment is the greatest wealth in life; love is the best companion in life; wisdom is the best beacon in life. Happiness and joy do not exist in the outside world, but come from the treasure inside. If you want to obtain true happiness and happiness, don’t seek it from outside, you should develop and dig it from within.

4. People who decide to become a monk because of hunger are called bald people. Volume 3 of the Southern Edition of the Nirvana Sutra, Vajra Body Products

5. If you have a kind heart, you will have happiness, if you have kind wishes, you will have kind power, you will create your own field of blessings, and you will get your own blessings.

6. A person’s life is full of stops and starts, stumbling, winning and missing, all of which happen unconsciously. Success occurs in an instant, and failure occurs in an instant. It is always difficult for people to get rid of the pursuit of fame and fortune and the concern about gains and losses. They often struggle all their lives without knowing why they are alive. Sometimes, people are confused, and they don’t know the meaning of running all the way, and they don’t know what the goal is that they stand on tiptoe to reach; sometimes, what they keep looking up at is the wrong angle, even if How can I see the bright shooting stars that light up the sky in an instant when my neck aches from watching them?

7. Resentment is vilifying one’s own life.

8. Ways to deal with troubles: first, demand yourself; second, learn to understand others; third, know how to be grateful and dedicated; fourth, cherish opportunities and blessings.

9. Everyone has something to do, and if there is someone to do everything, the more you do it, the happier you will be.

10. The longer you study Buddhism and the higher your practice, the more you should completely subdue and eliminate your worries, attachments, and habits. At the same time, your love and wisdom will be infinitely improved. However, some people tend to go against the grain. Their worries are more intense than those who have never practiced Buddhism, and their inner attachments and habits are more serious than before they started practicing Buddhism. The reason is that we lack the right knowledge and right views in the process of practice, so everything we learn and practice becomes an aid to the growth of wrong knowledge and wrong views.

11. The heart is not inside, outside, or in the middle. Just as the mind is, so are the sins and dirt, and the same is true for all dharmas. They do not come from such.

12. Everyone wants to "have", but the problem is that people's desires are endless. After filling their stomachs, they also seek delicacies; when they marry a beautiful wife, they also want to have a beautiful concubine; When you get a house, you ask for a mansion; when you get a job, you ask for a promotion; when you get a thousand dollars, you ask for tens of thousands of gold... Your precious life is spent in anguish in the endless pursuit of "possession".

13. Don’t accept or reject everything blindly. It depends on the nature of the matter and the environment and atmosphere at the time. You cannot reject what should be accepted, and never accept what should be rejected. While people learn to accept, they must also learn to reject, and learn to grasp the appropriate balance between acceptance and rejection. This degree is very difficult to grasp. It requires not only enough understanding, but also enough confidence and courage.

14. The purpose of Feng Shui theory is to survey nature, comply with nature, effectively utilize and transform nature, select and create the best architectural environment suitable for people's physical and mental health and behavioral needs, so as to achieve The perfect state of harmony between yin and yang, harmony between heaven and man, and harmony between body and mind.

15. We may not necessarily look for wealth outside our hearts. Real wealth should be the continuous energy in our hearts. People pursue wealth in order to live a better life. However, real wealth is not the accumulation of external money and material things, but inner satisfaction and enrichment.

16. Although the Bodhisattva vehicle upholds the pure precepts, he should be obedient to all sentient beings, but the Shravaka vehicle should not be obedient. Therefore, the Bodhisattva vehicle does not keep the protective precepts, while the Shravaka vehicle people keep the protective precepts completely.

17. All the blessings gained since learning the Tao are gathered together, with good intentions, and given to people, parents, and the like in the ten directions of the world.

18. When we are happy, the reason for happiness does not mean that we have given up on the things in the world, but that we have seen through and let them go; when we are troubled, the reason for the trouble does not mean It is not about the interference of phenomena on us, but the discrimination and attachment to it.

19. I repent of all the evil I have done in the past; I sincerely reveal the sins I have done now; I dare not do things I did not commit; I do not dare to cover up the deeds I have done. "Golden Light Sutra" Volume 1, Confessions

20. Assets are always a variable, and big businessmen will never be slaves to assets. Only when assets flow continuously, become listed companies that reproduce wealth, and are eventually integrated into the flow of economic development, benefiting the country and the people, can they be living and meaningful assets, and can they create great businessmen.

21. "The sea is open to all rivers, and its tolerance is great." In this world, the most tolerant thing is nature. Because of the tolerance of the earth, there is vitality for all things; with the tolerance of rivers, there is the vastness of the sea; with the tolerance of severe winter, there is spring with flowers in full bloom. Who doesn’t look forward to a living environment that is tolerant and harmonious? Nature is our role model.

22. When water encounters an obstacle, it will not fight against it, but will flow around. A tolerant and forgiving person is like water, neither calculating nor arguing. Achieve your goals with skill and wisdom and in a way that does not harm others.

23. The value of giving kindness without asking for anything in return is selflessness. If every benefactor has this kind of ideological state, he will give generously when he sees someone in trouble; he will give a helping hand when someone is in trouble. ; Afterwards, regardless of whether the recipient has reciprocated or not, he can feel at ease and have no regrets. Over time, you will be able to accumulate virtues and benefit endlessly.

24. The same is true in real life. "Never forget the past is the teacher of the future." After encountering a failure, we must be good at learning from the failure, and be able to bravely stand up from the failure and continue to move forward bravely, then you will eventually be one of those successful. However, after some people encounter setbacks, they cannot actively sum up their experiences and learn lessons from them. Instead, they fail to recover and always live in the shadow of failure. They are the losers in life.

25. If you see sentient beings suffering from various sufferings, you should think this: Since I have been reincarnating in life and death for a long time, I have also suffered such sufferings. increase. "Za Agama Sutra" Volume 34, Sutra 943

26. When a woman falls in love with a man, it is often out of admiration and appreciation from the bottom of her heart. A man who makes her look down upon cannot make her sincerely love him. Admired. Because Yang is always greater than Yin, Yang is always exposed and in a high position, just like heaven and earth. Heaven is Yang and earth is Yin. So when a woman falls in love with a man, this man must have a lot of qualities that she looks up to and longs for. Of course, if a woman is very talented or very powerful, then there will be fewer men she can look up to, and the chance of her finding the one she likes will become very slim.

27. Practice in life and live in practice.

28. Because the true mind is unmoved, he is called the King of Samadhi. ...This is the root of all samadhi. Once you understand this foundation, all your thoughts and thoughts will become samadhi.

29. When you hate others, you are the one who gets hurt at the same time. Learn to be grateful, and a drop of kindness should be repaid with a gushing spring; learn to be grateful, and know that giving opportunities to others means giving opportunities to yourself. Giving roses to others leaves the lingering fragrance in your hands. If you give someone a hand today, someone will help you when you are in trouble tomorrow. Life is like a mirror, learn to be grateful and always smile at life, and life will smile back at you.

30. All living beings are the Bodhisattva Buddha Land, so why? Bodhisattvas take the Buddha land according to the living beings they transform.

31. Ordinary people understand that there are three realms in life: "If you look at mountains, they are mountains, and if you look at water, they are water; if you look at mountains, they are not mountains, and if you look at water, they are not water; if you look at mountains, they are still mountains, and if you look at water, they are still water." Therefore, people should look broadly at the world, be broad-minded, be enthusiastic but not pretentious, and be sincere but not hypocritical.

32. A woman should have the characteristics of a woman: gentle, coquettish, pleasing to the eye, and elegant.

33. Enlightenment cannot be achieved by simply studying the classics. You also need to turn what you have learned into practice.

34. The Buddha has compassion for all living beings and treats all living beings with a pure heart and an equal heart. This is his great compassion. Therefore, compassion and equality are the "true nature" of the Buddha's heart. The true heart appears before people and reaches the Buddha's Dharma Realm in the ten directions. Only when the heart is pure, equal, and free from prejudice can we be truly fair. This is the difference between ordinary saints.

35. The beacon of Buddhism points out the direction for us on the long road of practice. It can be done if it is difficult, it can be endured if it is difficult, the heart needs to be filled with freedom and tolerance, not clinging to the future, nor clinging to the past, but staying in the present and grasping the present. Keep your heart full and peaceful, keep a normal mind at all times, use your normal mind as your dojo, practice Buddhism, and realize the true meaning of the universe and life.

36. The troubles and pressure of life are inevitable products of life. Learn to be free in life instead of being embarrassed in life. When facing troubles, you might as well learn to laugh at yourself, and in short find ways to overcome troubles. Method, use inner power to adapt to, influence, and change the world around you.

37. This story about the density and density of life contains the motivation of painstaking education in life, inspiring the taste of life in the ordinary and the vastness in the hard work. When a person walks through the world, it is not to chew on the futility. The loneliness of being helpless, but the ability to seek the kind of wealth that is always contented and happy, and the open-mindedness to deal with the world as it happens. No matter how hurried your steps are, prepare a suitcase: simplicity, peace, relief, and optimism.

38. Live a little longer and show yourself, many people and things have nothing to do with you. Life is full of flavors, love is the strongest, life is prosperous, light is the truest, life is a journey, there is scenery step by step, and there is a journey of understanding. No matter how time goes by, some things will not change, that is, the pursuit of beauty, the true love desire, give yourself some indifference.

39. The gatherings and separations in life are normal. No matter who passes by whom, the fate is up to him. Don’t be sad or worried, just let some warmth stay in your heart for the next time. A better reunion, the troubles of life have different appearances, stick to the indifferent and light existence in your heart.

40. Giving up is sometimes more difficult than fighting for, because giving up is also a choice. The highest state of giving up is not regretting it. Everything you do has a cost. The biggest cost in life is not money and time, but opportunity. The more unwilling a person is to give up anything, the easier it is for him to miss the most precious opportunity in life!

41. The unhappiness and misunderstanding with others in life, the misfortune and sadness in life...let all the troubles disappear with the passing of the tide when the sea rises; remember it with your heart Every time someone helps you, carve the gratitude in your heart and the happiness and friendship between you on the stone, so that it can be as immortal as the stone.

42. If you don’t bring it with you in life, you won’t take it with you in death.

43. Let go of everything and everything will be won. If you can't let go, you won't be able to break free. A person can be relieved only if he can let go. He can build fences and plant chrysanthemums in his heart without having to avoid the hustle and bustle of cars and horses. Traveling thousands of miles, if you can't escape the hustle and bustle of yourself, you can't escape the hustle and bustle of the world. In other words, when we become quiet, the world will also become quiet.

44. Thinking that getting means happiness, so you are used to pursuing it. However, no matter how much you have, it cannot be compared to physical and mental peace and health. I thought the scenery was far away, so I got used to running around, but little did I know that no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it couldn't compare to the tranquility and peace of home. Some things can be ignored, and some things can be dispensed with. What truly enriches life is not wanting, but understanding.

45. Human beings like discriminating labels the most, and even label the qualities and emotions that all human beings have in common.

46. How can you see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? The brilliance of life can only be revealed after experiencing the vicissitudes of life.

47. Stay away from foul language, which will harm yourself and each other. Practicing good words will benefit oneself and others, and benefit both others and myself.

48. Time passes by moment by moment, and it makes people grow old by the moment.

49. Live your life like a broken lotus, not for understanding, but for compassion. When life is far away from the glitz, hustle and bustle, away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd, fame and fortune, and following the crowd, life is about recycling. The dregs of time have settled out, leaving only a simple heart, showing a handful of old red in the time. The red is transparent and crystal clear. In the ordinary and secular days, there is a little light of poetry and simplicity.

50. There should be a lotus flower in your heart. It will startle slightly and then turn into a beautiful flower. That lotus has to go through wind and rain, and it has to go through damage. Then, there is still a domineering coolness. In other words, with that kind of calm warmth at a low temperature, and Suzhen who has emerged from the mud but is still unsullied. It must still have the possibility of suddenly blooming. No matter how dark, no matter how dark, no matter how cold.

51. Buddha said: Don’t say that others are pitiful, you are even more pitiful, so what if you practice by yourself? How much do you know about life?

52. Say less and recite Buddha more often.

53. If someone hurts you, there is no need to endure it. You must stand up and resist, but do not hate the person who committed this act, do not be angry with him, and do not want to say that you want revenge. This way your reaction won't be an act of revenge, a repayment of a wrong. This is true patience. When we are angry, it is difficult to make correct judgments, so let go of your anger first.

54. A stinky bone, what is the purpose of doing homework?

55. Most of our lives are wasted on the elusiveness of written language.

56. Suffering is not suffering, happiness is not joy, it is just a temporary obsession. If you cling to one thought, you will be trapped in that thought; if you let go of one thought, you will be free in your heart. Many people and many things are hard to come by. In this case, just relax and let nature take its course. Things change with the mind, situations are created by the mind, and all worries arise from the mind. No matter when and where you are, you should have a peaceful heart, maintain an open-minded attitude, and don't let yourself live too tiredly.

57. One should give up on laziness and stay away from all troubles; one should always be content with silence, and this person should be liberated.

58. When the sad mother is present, it is called rich; when the sad mother is not present, it is called poverty. When Bei’s mother is alive, it’s called Rizhong; when Bei’s mother dies, it’s called Rizhong. When the sad mother is alive, it is called the moon; when the sad mother is dead, it is called the dark night.

59. If a person lives for a hundred years and is lazy and not diligent, it is better to live for one day and work hard to be diligent.

60. The method of contentment is the place of happiness and peace. A contented person will be happy even if he is lying on the ground; a dissatisfied person will not be happy even if he is in heaven. Those who are dissatisfied will be poor even though they are rich; those who are content will be rich even though they are poor.

61. Don’t recall the past, don’t welcome the future, and don’t cling to the present.

62. Only your own heart hinders you, and there are no other obstacles.

63. If you understand the Buddha’s words, you must practice the Buddha’s deeds.

64. When you are lost in time, you will be saved by the teacher. When you are enlightened, you will save yourself. You can only save yourself by your own nature. Listening to the Dharma is a sudden pause, understanding the Dharma is a sudden pause, practicing practice is a sudden pause, and attaining the fruit is a sudden pause.

65. The Bodhisattva’s heart has no choice or give up, like a big moon wheel, and is perfect and silent, which is Nirvana.